Taking the core insights of the great religions as they were created and introduced in past millennia—and combining those insights with some of the major discoveries we have made in the past 2,000 years, including Waking Up and Growing Up—gives us the most likely structure of any spirituality that will be able to survive as a bona fide religion of tomorrow.

This lesson will help you . . .

• Explain how a “religion of tomorrow,” as described by Ken Wilber, goes far beyond what you may currently think of traditional religious practices
• Identify and access the major states of Waking Up described by the saints and sages from all the world's spiritual traditions
• Identify and understand the major levels of Growing Up, and get a sense of where you are in your own ongoing grotwh

In this lesson we look closely at spiritual intelligence, which addresses the central question, “What is it that is of ultimate concern to me?” He will present the evidence for how we know that the stages of Growing Up exist. And he will clearly sketch out these stages through the line of spiritual intelligence.

This lesson will help you . . .

• Define your spiritual intelligence, and distinguish it from your spiritual experience
• Understand why a similar Waking Up experience can be interpreted very differently at different stages of Growing Up
• Describe the stages of Growing Up through the line of spiritual intelligence

One of the most historically profound and significant discoveries about the human mind made during the modern era is the discovery of the nature of the psychodynamic unconscious (the nature of repression, the nature of shadow) and the various approaches or therapies to address and even heal those dysfunctions.

This lesson will help you . . .

• Understand why Cleaning Up is an essential element in any religion of tomorrow
• Describe how the shadow is created and how projection works
• Consider your own shadow material and what you might be shadow-hugging or shadow-boxing

Each stage of development—both in Waking Up and Growing Up—is supposed to transcend and include the stage that comes before it. If something goes wrong in either of those aspects—transcending or including—it can bring development (of either Growing Up or Waking Up) to a crashing halt and pathological development arrest sets in. This is why it’s so important to include Cleaning Up in any viable religion of tomorrow. And in this lesson, Ken will show you how to do just that with a therapeutic process for working with shadow material.

This lesson will help you . . .

• Describe the “transcend and include” process that your go through at each stage of your personal development
• Explain how addictions and allergies are created when the process of “transcend and include” goes wrong
• Understand the mechanism that underlies the formation of shadow material
• Practice the 3-2-1 process for working with your shadow material

Once we have discovered the stages of Growing Up and know what they are, we can bring a meditative awareness (or mindfulness) to bear on each of them. By making these subjects object we accelerate our development through them, thus accelerating our evolution. This combination of bringing a Waking Up Awareness to bear on the stages of Growing Up is what we call “Full-Spectrum Mindfulness”—and it’s a version of overall Integral Meditation.

This lesson will help you . . .

• Understand how Full Spectrum Mindfulness goes so far beyond non-Integral forms of mindfulness practice
• Understand the difference between Witnessing Awareness and One Taste Awareness
• Experience Witness and One Taste practices for yourself

Integral Tantra is directly connected to Big Love and Big Bliss. It is generally agreed that the very highest schools of Tantra (such as those manifested in the highest reaches of Vajrayana) are perhaps the most sophisticated and profound of all the world’s Great Wisdom Traditions. But Tantra itself is not confined to Buddhism; in fact, variations on the major themes of Tantra can be found to some degree in the upper reaches of the majority of the Great Traditions. As we will see in the talk and practice in this lesson, Integral Tantra is a profound culmination of the defining drive of evolution itself: to transcend and include.

This lesson will help you . . .

• Place tantric practice in a historical context
• Understand the connection between Integral Tantra, Big Love, and Big Bliss
• Experience Integral Tantra practice for yourself

Showing Up simply means to fully acknowledge, and totally inhabit, all four quadrants of existence—to not try to deny or ignore or reduce any of them, but to see all of them as equally real and equally important. And with this final addition, you have the four key elements of a religion of tomorrow: Waking Up, Growing Up, Cleaning Up, and Showing Up.

This lesson will help you . . .

• Understand the influence that the four quadrants have on how we view and articulate our experiences
• Distinguish among the four quadrants and describe each of them
• Consider your own relationships through the lens of Showing Up, applying a four-quadrant awareness to your life and your world